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| Aluko, Otuoke VC- |
As
controversies continue to trail the Federal Government’s appointment of new
vice chancellors for 13 universities, including the National Open University of
Nigeria, NOUN, the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Otuoke, Professor Bolaji
Aluko, has said that he was not sacked and that his tenure will expire today.
In a statement, yesterday, Professor Aluko
said that from the day he was appointed as vice chancellor of the university,
he knew his that tenure will terminate today, February 15, 2016 and that he has
cleared his desk in readiness for his successor. Besides, he disclosed that he
and eight other Vice chancellors affected by the current appointments were
appointed the same day with their tenure expected to terminate today.
Professor
Aluko attached a letter from the Federal Ministry of Education on his
appointment for a single term and a letter dated February 4, 2016 from the
National Universities Commission, NUC to eight Pro-chancellors of the
universities (Dutse, Dutsin-Ma, Kashere, Lafia, Lokoja, Ndufu-Alike, Otuoke and
Wukari) ‘’re-confirming the date of expiration of tenure of their
Vice-Chancellors, and appropriately instructing each of them about the proper
handing-over to an Acting Vice-Chancellor by the current VC in order to avoid
any vacuum in power within the universities.’’
He also attached a letter that made the
previous referenced letter necessary, that is a letter (dated 19 November,
2015) to the same eight Pro-Chancellors asking for the suspension of the
due-process appointment of new Vice-Chancellors in their Universities, a
process that began with newspaper advertisements.
His
statement read in part: ‘’My last official day is therefore Monday, February
15, 2016, which I have known from Day One, which I have never sought to change.
In fact, at this time, I have cleared out my desk in readiness for a new
Vice-Chancellor.”
By
Clifford Ndujihe & Dayo Adesulu
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